Shigenosuke Ushio

Shigenosuke Ushio (11 August 1881-1 September 1955) was Home Minister of Japan from 9 March 1936 to 2 February 1937, succeeding Fumio Goto and preceding Kakichi Kawarada.

Biography
Shigenosuke Ushio was born in Shimane Prefecture, Japan in 1881, and he graduated from Tokyo Imperial University in 1907 with a constitutional law major. He entered the Home Ministry and rose through the ranks rapidly, becoming Vice-Minister in 1928 and again in 1932. He enforced reducing election fraud issues, and he was simultaneously Home Minister and acting Education Minister under Koki Hirota's government. In 1938, he became a member of the Privy Council, and he became its Vice-Chairman in 1946, serving until it was dissolved by the United States. He died in 1955 at the age of 74.